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A recipe book for creating language activities using Moodle 1.9

Get the most out of Moodle 1.9's features to create enjoyable, useful language learning activities

Create an online language learning centre that includes reading, writing, speaking, listening, vocabulary, and grammar activities

Enhance your activities to make them visually attractive, and make the most of audio and video activities

Description

That word Moodle keeps cropping up all over the place ñ it's in the newspapers, on other teachers' tongues, in more and more articles. Do you want to find out more about it yourself and learn how to create all sorts of fun and useful online language activities with it? Your search ends right here. This book demystifies Moodle and provides you with answers to your queries. It helps you create engaging online language learning activities using the Moodle platform. It has suggestions and fully working examples for adapting classroom activities to the Virtual Learning Environment. This book breaks down the core components of a typical language syllabus ñ speaking, pronunciation, listening, reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, and assessment ñ and shows you how to use Moodle 1.9 to create complete, usable activities that practise them. Each chapter starts with activities that are easier to set up and progresses to more complex ones. Nevertheless, it's a recipe book so each activity is independent. We start off with a brief introduction to Moodle so that you're ready to deal with those specific syllabus topics, and conclude with building extended activities that combine all syllabus elements, making your course attractive and effective. Building activities based on the models in this book, you will develop the confidence to set up your own Moodle site with impressive results.

What you will learn

Look at a variety of activities that help students to learn words, review and recycle vocabulary, and learn different ways of keeping vocabulary records.

Help students get better at their speaking ability using the add-on nanogong recorder, which illustrates activities that look at pronunciation, intonation, fluency, stress, and discussions.

Create a wide range of activities for presenting grammar, practising its use, and keeping grammar records.

Embed flash audio players and YouTube video on your Moodle to make language learning more fun.

Encourage students to read and interact with texts using Moodle and learn an activity on extended reading.

Set up collaborative writing tasks and tasks with different types of feedback to help students to structure sentences to create longer texts, build short stories using key vocabulary, and more.

Make your materials look more engaging and attractive by enhancing their visual design.

Consider the importance of roles, groups, and outcomes as well as the add-ons to make the most of Moodle for language teaching.

Create activities that help students learn and practise to write effectively online.

Set up useful listening activities using student-made recordings, forum discussions and authentic texts, which motivate students to listen.

Help students to interact with listening texts through tasks such as matching, gap-fill, text prediction, and ordering events.

Benefit from Moodle s gradebook statistics to improve your own language tests.

Make your students language learning experience more effective by checking the quality of the text, images, and audio and learn the importance of clear navigation paths.

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Know-Your-Client Solutions SL Jan 26, 2013

Teaching languages online it helps you to understand how moodle works and implement it. I think after working with this book you have enough understanding of moodle functions in order to explore additional options if you wish.

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Amazon Customer Feb 01, 2010

As an EFL and German teacher who moonlights as a Moodle administrator, I found this book to be extremely helpful. The regular Moodle bible "Using Moodle", while good left lots of blank spaces. This book fills in the blanks and gives the teacher a great number of ideas. I can highly recommend this book and not just to language teachers.

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Tamara M. Powell Jan 11, 2010

Review of Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Learning by Jeff Stanford, Packt Publishing, 2009I can start with what is not superb about this book: if you don't teach language or language acquisition, this book is probably not for you, although you could likely get something out of it.As someone who, for the past five years, has had a job that involves assisting faculty in using instructional technology, I've read a lot of books about software and how to use it. Some of those books were lifesavers, but most of them were not. I expected Stanford's book to be one of the better ones because I had met him at EDUCA in 2009, and he had great things to share in his presentation on using Moodle for second language teaching. As I began reading Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching, I realized that Stanford doesn't hit his audience with all he knows during his presentations, and for good reason. It would overwhelm.Most of the instructional technology books I read require that I make the leap from "how x works" to "how to use x in the electronic classroom." Stanford's book makes that leap for the reader. This book approaches using Moodle from the perspective of a language instructor. Stanford delineates the educational theories he uses, and he assists the reader in putting together structured, organized, effective teaching tools rooted in the communicative approach to language learning. This book is very different from, say, a book on how to use Moodle. This book only covers how to use Moodle to teach a second language. That is, there are instructions regarding setting up a Moodle site, making the site effective for teaching, using different tools in Moodle, etc., but all directions are geared toward creating a Moodle space for teaching a second language.The directions are clearly presented and illustrated, and tips or tricks are included so that readers don't have to learn from their own trials and errors. I appreciated the author's going the extra mile, so to speak, to assist the readers in using Moodle effectively. I have often encountered instructional technology books that provide information regarding how to do x but fail to mention that x is glitchy on y machines so download the free z add in, and here's the trick to installing that, and you'll be fine. Stanford covers tricks and tips like that, as well. It is clear that the author is expert at using Moodle, knows the pitfalls as well as the advantages, and makes recommendations to assist readers so that they don't have to learn from their own mistakes. His examples are timely and interesting, and he shares great materials that readers can easily replicate in their own classrooms. He shares the html code for basic tasks and recommends various audio and video tools that work well in Moodle. The sample activities he provides are broken down into vocabulary, speaking, grammar, reading, writing, and listening--56 activities in all, with additional activities in later chapters. He even incorporates a section on making your Moodle site look good.I will keep this book on my desk, and I'm sure I'll be recommending it to fellow language teachers. In a nutshell, if you use Moodle, and if you teach language acquisition, you will benefit from this book. To learn more about this book visit [..].If you'd like to look at chapter 8 on "Listening Activities," check it out here:[...].

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Alex Ballarin Apr 07, 2013

Compré este libro para Geanina, una profesora de inglés que ha estado usando Moodle y quería ir más allá en el uso específico orientado a la docencia de idiomas.Su opinión es muy positiva, destaca que está muy bien estructurado acorde a los tipos de actividades que se realizan en la enseñanza del inglés, y que más allá de la explicación sobre los tipos de Actividades de Moodle, contiene recomendaciones "do's and dont's" y reflexiones sobre el uso de estas actividades que le han ayudado a desarrollar cursos más complejos y con más garantías de éxito.Alex Ballarin / Cynertia Consulting

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Don Hinkelman Jul 15, 2010

I am an EFL teacher, program administrator, and co-moderator of the Moodle for Language Teaching Community. Six reviewers on this site have given a highly critical but positive review of Jeff Stanford's book. In over ten chapter-by-chapter reviews, we provide a detailed analysis of each activity in this massive encyclopedia of knowledge of Moodle in foreign language teaching. A downloadable, electronic version of the book is available from the publisher, Packt Books. If you are interested to read over 15,000 total words of commentary, I refer you to the forums on moodle dot org (registration required). Look for the "course" called "Moodle for Language Teaching".Here is an except from one of the reviews:"Released in November 2009, Jeff Stanford has produced a herculean, 500-plus page handbook for applying the Moodle open source LMS to the specific needs of foreign language teaching. Given the pervasive use of online LMSs in teaching today, any language teacher needs to be aware of the options available for enhancing the online components of teaching and learning in their `blend' of face-to-face and web-based activities. Though anyone can suggest omissions to the book, it is actually hard to argue that any more needs to be added to this already comprehensive edition. In addition to the ten chapters provided in the print and pdf-file versions of the book, two additional chapters, Chapter 11: and Chapter 12: are available for download at the Packt website. Furthermore, Chapter 8, on listening skills, is available from the publisher for free download as a sample to encourage readers to purchase the book. The full Table of Contents is viewable as well.""One of the qualities of this book, is the recipe-book structure that it sticks to throughout the chapters. This has been pointed out by earlier reviews (see Miguel Guhlin and Mary Cooch for example). By recipe-book, I mean the book walks a teacher through, step-by-step, how to accomplish various objectives, often with detailed screenshots. What is the best structure of a book on language learning? The outline of this book suggests it favors a skills approach (four chapters on speaking, reading, writing and listening) supported by a knowledge approach (2 chapters on vocabulary and grammar) and class management approach (3 chapters on setup, assessment, and extensions). I like this because these categories are familiar to most language teachers and thus will be easiest for them to locate information. It assumes you will browse, like a reference book, rather than read start-to-finish. It does not offer a complete course or curriculum, instead of resists promoting one method, offering more generic tools that all can use. For this reason, reviewing the table of contents is essential first reading as it will guide your browsing. Unfortunately, I found the table of contents somewhat difficult to read due to formatting or font selection. In future editions, formatting across the book needs attention so it is both easy and a pleasure on the eyes."

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Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching: Engaging online language learning activities using the Moodle platform

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